When I first saw Tom Scott’s Journalism Warning Stickers, my first thought was that surely, by the next day, someone would have written a bookmarklet for them.
I haven’t seen one yet, so I’m taking a stab at it myself. (I’ve never written a bookmarklet before, so we’ll see how this works out…)
The idea: Create a bookmarklet that will open up a j.mp or Publish2 style sidebar overlay. From here, you can select which sticker to overlay on a web page, and create a URL for the page WITH the overlay to share on Twitter, FB, etc.
So far, I have the script that will overlay an image on a website:
javascript: (function(){ document.body.innerHTML+='
<img src="http://www.megantaylor.org/jwarnings /jwarnings_02.gif?x23240" style="position:absolute; left: 200px; top: 150px; z-index: 1000">'; } )();
The image URLs are jwarnings_02.gif, 03.gif, etc.
I tried to link the bookmarklet here, but I think WP is messing with my code. Here’s a quick example of the output:
I’m gonna keep working on this, but if anyone wants to give me a hand, or point me in the direction of some useful code, I’d really appreciate it.
August 23, 2010 at 8:21 pm
This will be easy to do and I’d be happy to help but I’m not sure this would be a great way to do it.
My question is, whats the point? Is it just for the satisfaction of inserting a label only you can see?
August 23, 2010 at 8:24 pm
Part of the idea is to generate a URL that runs the jscript so you can share it…I’m assuming this is doable…
August 23, 2010 at 8:50 pm
Ah, that would be a No then. Bookmarklet is not the solution. You would need a script running on a server accessible by you where it would could pass a URL like:
http://megantaylor.org/appname.php?site=http://cnn.com&msgChoice=CitationNeeded
or something…
August 23, 2010 at 8:56 pm
I’m assuming that’s how this (http://newscrud.com/) works, right? Could you still do the user-end with a bookmarklet? And connect it to the server-side script to get the URL?
August 24, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Yes. Thats what NewsCrud does. The Bookmarklet would only help to provide a shortcut to a similar service.
August 24, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Hm, OK. Thanks!
September 20, 2010 at 7:33 pm
I assume you’ve seen how these guys do it? http://baconize.com/
Like Michael said, it just forwards them to the other page, hosted on your server. Love the idea.
September 20, 2010 at 8:12 pm
Yup, Baconize and Cornify were my inspiration.